Tourist circuit: Knowledge and knowledge

Circuit lasting 3h

Achievable walk

Access Points: Al-Anwar Mosque / Mosque and Madrasa Bab El Guissa

Theme: Highlighting workshops dedicated to embroidery, traditional brocade weaving.

Main stages: Al-Anwar Mosque - An Andalusian Mosque - Madrasa Sbaïyine - Sahrij Madrasa - Mosque El Wad - Souq Seffah - Workshop leather craftsmen - Bridge and up Bin Lemdoun - Tannery Chouara - Derb Touil - embroidery and weaving workshop Zaouiat Sidi Ahmed Tijani - brocade Workshop - Al Achabine.

Combining knowledge of the mind to the dexterity of the hands, this circuit draws between the two shores of the medina the path of Knowledge. Its transmission through the different attractions is available both in places dedicated to spiritual knowledge as spaces devoted to manual and technical skills. Thus madrasahs in mosques, madrasahs of workshops, culture and knowledge to invite to your walk. From one end to the other of the medina, this tour takes you from the bank of the Andalusians to the bank of the Qaraouyine. And spiritual capital city of Knowledge, Fez has long welcomed within its walls many students and scholars worldwide. Built to accommodate these students, many madrassas (schools) as Sahrij and Sbaiyine are further expression of the creative genius and meticulous craftsmen generation. In addition to these residential schools, will shine for centuries the radiation of the mosque al-Karaouine University, the first comprehensive university in the world.

Mosque Al Andalous

Marking the space and memory by its width and its entry gatehouse fourteen steps, the Al Andalous, second cultural and spiritual center of the medina, is the center of Andalous district. Dominating the whole district, its elegant white minaret is modeled that of Quaraouiyine, undisputed center of knowledge in Fez. Subject to all the attention, the Al Andalous mosque was repeatedly enlarged, restored and equipped with various pieces of furniture (minbar, lamps, clocks). It is in the Almohad dynasty that owes its remarkable entrance, furnished with a wooden canopy carved cedar and zelliges polychrome.

Workshop weaving and embroidery - brocade Workshop

A unique example of this type of crafts in Morocco, visiting the workshop brocade leave you undoubtedly face admiring the richness of textile work, but especially given the complexity of the work. Custodian of the know-how of exception, If Abdelkhader Ouazani, remains the only artisan to practice this discipline. Not far away, are the workshops of weaving and embroidery that open their doors. Standing behind their craft, the shuttle by hand, craftsmen display their energy are born to and fro force of their son in charge of shuttle, long held textile that will flood their workshops and boutiques colors.

tannery Chouara

Mecca of traditional craftsmanship and true emblem of the city of Fez, this place has retained its authenticity until today. Enter the place or overhang it off a surrounding terrace, so that you reveal the secrets of its organization and its traditional work. See how from generation to generation, skin tanning ancestral techniques have come down to us.

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